PANIC : STORY OF MODERN FINANCIAL INSANITY

Author: Michael Lewis

A masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk
leads to catastrophe.

When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. Michael Lewis is our jungle
guide through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial
history: the crash of '87, the Russian default (and the subsequent collapse of Long-Term
Capital Management), the Asian currency crisis of 1999, the Internet bubble, and
the current sub-prime mortgage disaster. With his trademark humor and brilliant
anecdotes, Lewis paints the mood and market factors leading up to each event, weaves
contemporary accounts to show what people thought was happening at the time, and
then, with the luxury of hindsight, analyzes what actually happened and what we
should have learned from experience.

As he proved in Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, and Moneyball, Lewis is without
peer in his understanding of market forces and human foibles. He is also, arguably,
the funniest serious writer in America.

THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR

The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught
and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing"
-- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term
strategies -- has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since
its original publication in 1949.

Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies.
While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition
includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective
incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's
examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough
understanding of how to apply Graham's principles.

Vital and indispensable, this HarperBusiness Essentials edition of The Intelligent
Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial
goals.

THE FUTURE OF MANAGEMENT

What fuels long-term business success? Not operational excellence, technology breakthroughs,
or new business models, but management innovation - new ways of mobilizing talent,
allocating resources, and formulating strategies. Through history, management innovation
has enabled companies to cross new performance thresholds and build enduring advantages.
In "The Future of Management", Gary Hamel argues that organizations need
management innovation now more than ever. Why? The management paradigm of the last
century - centered on control and efficiency - no longer suffices in a world where
adaptability and creativity drive business success. To thrive in the future, companies
must reinvent management.Hamel explains how to turn your company into a serial management
innovator, revealing: the make-or-break challenges that will determine competitive
success in an age of relentless, head-snapping change; the toxic effects of traditional
management beliefs; the unconventional management practices generating breakthrough
results in 'modern management pioneers'; the radical principles that will
need to become part of every company's 'management DNA'; and, the steps
your company can take now to build your 'management advantage'. Practical
and profound, "The Future of Management" features examples from Google,
W.L. Gore, Whole Foods, IBM, Samsung, Best Buy, and other blue-ribbon management
innovators.

SUCCESS BUILT TO LAST

Author: Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson

The phenomenal follow-up to the bestselling Built to Last.

Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a
set of simple practices, and using them to transform your career and your life.
That’s what Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, and Mark Thompson—leading thinkers
in organizational development and self- improvement has done in Success Built to
Last. Two hundred remarkable human beings from around the world are included, notably:

Each share how he or she harvested victories, learned from failures, and found
the courage to be true to their passions. By following a set of simple principles
culled from these inspiring interviews, readers can transform their business and
personal lives—and discover the true meaning of success.

THE EXTREME FUTURE

Author: James Canton

A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes
on the horizon.

An advisor to three presidents spanning over thirty years, Dr. James Canton identifies
probable outcomes and future trends in business, technology, environment, terrorism,
population, and medicine to help companies and individuals prepare for the coming
complex and volatile global changes, including:

• How climate change and energy trends will reshape the planet
• How astounding medicine trends will enhance people’s lives
• How the rise of China will bring on a new global power struggle

In the tradition of Future Shock, Megatrends, and The Tipping Point, Extreme Future
is the essential forecasting handbook for navigating the twenty-first century.

THE DRAGON AND THE ELEPHANT

Author: David Smith

The rise of China and India will be the outstanding development of the 21st century,
raising fundamental questions about both the structure of the world economy and
the balance of global geopolitical power.

Will China still be a repressive and undemocratic regime, embracing free market
economics but only when it suits? How aggressive a superpower will it be? And what
about India, whose huge and growing population and economic prospects appear to
guarantee prosperity? David Smith analyses the ways in which the world is tilting
rapidly Eastwards, and examines all the implications of the shift in global power
to Beijing, Delhi and Washington – a shift that will creep up on us before
we know it.

FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Now in a striking new hardcover edition, Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth
sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim
Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite
raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written
a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill.

This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal
with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous
forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of trading–Fooled
by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors
in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles
major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance
on our lives.

The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in
their own way, the significance of chance: the baseball legend Yogi Berra; the philosopher
of knowledge Karl Popper; the ancient world’s wisest man, Solon; the modern
financier George Soros; and the Greek voyager Odysseus. We also meet the fictional
Nero, who seems to understand the role of randomness in his professional life but
falls victim to his own superstitious foolishness.

THE ELEPHANT AND THE DRAGON

Author: Robyn Meredith

In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials and
monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles
along newly built motorways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo. Yet exotic
India is as near as the voice answering the telephone from a call-centre. Communist
China is as close as the nearest department store, its shelves full of goods made
in Chinese factories.Not since the United States rose to prominence a century ago
have we seen such tectonic shifts in global power; but India and China are vastly
different nations, with opposing economic and political strategies -strategies we
must understand in order to survive in the new global economy. "The Elephant
and the Dragon" tells how these two Asian nations, each with more than a billion
people, have spurred a new "gold rush" and what this will mean for the
rest of the world.

NEW VENTURE CREATION

Author: Jeffry A Timmons, Stephen Spinelli

New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century is about the actual
process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting
it, and starting again. It continues to be the product of experience and considerable
research in the field—rooted in real-world application and refined in the
classroom. The design and flow of the book are aimed at creating knowledge, skills,
and awareness. In a pragmatic way—through text, case studies and hands-on
exercises—students are drawn in to discover critical aspects of entrepreneurship,
and what levels of competencies, know-how, experience, attitudes, resources and
networks are required to pursue different entrepreneurial opportunities. The Eighth
edition includes new cases and exercises, updated Web sites, and new text material
to capture the current financial, economic, technological, and globally competitive
environment of this first decade of the new century.

BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY

Written by the business world's new gurus, Blue Ocean Strategy continues to
challenge everything you thought you knew about competing in today’s crowded
marketplace.

Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty
industries, authors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne argue that lasting success comes
from creating 'blue oceans': untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.
And the business world has caught on- companies around the world are skipping the
bloody red oceans of rivals and creating their very own blue oceans. With over one
million copies sold worldwide, Blue Ocean Strategy is quickly reaching "must
read" status among smart business readers. Have you caught the wave?